A group of Nigerian immigrants have been caught by the German police, who hid in a freight train trying to enter Germany illegally.

According to Reuters, seven adults and five unaccompanied minors climbed out of the train, traveling from the Italian city of Verona to Munich, after police found them in a spot check using heat detection cameras in the southern town of Raubling.

Most of the arrested Immigrants who are Nigerians, Somalians, Ivoirians, were wearing only shorts and T-Shirts and had hidden under lorries transported on the train.

Police in the city of Rosenheim, which is near the Austrian border have said they are finding an increasing number of migrants seeking to enter the country illegally.

According to the police, the number of illegal immigrants are increasing and the conditions they are exposed to is not good for their health.

He said;

“That’s a clear increase, because in the first half of the year we only found 20 people in total.